Friday, July 20th, 2007
64 Squares: jQuery Chess
64squar.es is a completely free, fully featured and easy to use online chess site with a clean simple interface.
Users can play opponents in real-time by dragging and dropping the pieces just like a real chess board. Ajax is used to make your moves on the opponent’s board and vice versa.
We are trying to blur the distinction between real-time online play and correspondence chess. If a user is not online when a move is made, they are sent an email.
Other features:
- Customize board color
- In game chat
- Take-backs
- Avatars
- Implementation of ELO Ranking
- Email Notification
64squar.es is built using Ruby on Rails and jQuery. It also uses Juggernaut (a ruby on rails plugin) to remove the need for polling to improve responsiveness and ease future scaling.
More info:
4 rating from 29 votes
Nice! I like a game of chess from time to time…
Wow~~ It’s must be popular。 I’ll try this
Sure, it is interesting as an implementation of rails, but as an avid player I would prefer to play at the free internet chess server (freechess.org), which is telnet based with a variety of GUI clients available.
@Ahsan: You should contact the developer directly with your suggestions. I’m sure he’d be interested in improving his service instead of hearing about how you like another server better.
@Rey. Sure. FICS is just my personal preference as a player.